28 OCTOßER 20, 193+ SCENES FROM THE MESOZOIC C.- In mesozoic days a war, However short, went quite as far As those du Pont equips, or Krupp. Like us, thèY ate each other up. r .z; 0> \ An after-dinner speaker's dread Was such, in days of old, That only when his friends had fed As full as they could hold Would he atteInpt a few rCInark" AInid their disapproving barks. Uneasy, deferential, yet With yearnings to be heard, He'd stand up, in a guilty sweat, While some toastmasterish bird Would call upon a chance convention To give him their morose attention. . And though we're rid of other chains, This curious custom still obtains. . and papers on the music rack of the piano and concentrating on them while his hands were automatically banging out sad, sweet, menacing, merry, or tragic music, or imitations of the hoof- beats of approaching horses, according to the demands of the picture. He f\ \Vhcn fiancées of noble birth Fit st strolled about the humble earth And felt the gaze of hoi polloi, It filled theIn then, as now, with joy. ' ) {\ J In those old days they tell us of, In many a bad old land The large supply of mother love Exceeded the demand. Not every mother gave her all: The very thought might gall her. But even when her love was small, The call for it was smaller. -CLARENCE DAY . played a passage from Beethoven once as an accompaniment to a film. The audience, composed mostly of Dart- mouth students, got restless. There were shouts of "Play music!" and Janssen was forced to behave. Later experiments with classics were drowned by yells of "Music, music!" and show- ers of peanuts and soda-water bottles. Janssen won a reputation as a musi- cal wizard at Dartmouth by his class- room feats. A professor played intricate Bach compositions on the piano and asked his students to count the number